U.S. Department 

 of Commerce 



Seattle, Washington 



Volume 98 

 Number 4 

 October 2000 



Fishery 

 Bulletin 



^JEC - 4 2000 



Contents 



The conclusions and opinions expressed 

 in Fishen' Bullfltt} are solely those of the 

 authors and do not represent the official 

 position of the National Marine Fisher* 

 ies Service iNOAAi or any other agency 

 or institution. 



The National Marine Fisheries Service 

 iNMFS) does not approve, recommend, or 

 endorse any proprietary product or pro- 

 prietary material mentioned in this pub- 

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 NMFS, or to this publication furnished by 

 NMFS, in any advertising or sales pro- 

 motion which would indicate or imply 

 that NMFS approves, recommends, or 

 endorses any proprietary product or pro- 

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 which has as its purpose an intent to 

 cause directly or indirectly the advertised 

 product to be used or purchased because 

 of this NMFS publication. 



Articles 



661 -673 Brodziak, Jon, and Robert Mikus 



Variation in life history parameters of Dover sole, Microstomus 

 pacificus, off the coasts of Washington, Oregon, and northern California 



674-683 de la Rosa-Velez, Jorge, Roberto Escobar-Fernandez, 

 Francisco Correa, Mercedes Maqueda-Cornejo, and 

 Javier de la Torre-Cueto 



Genetic structure of two commercial penaeids 

 (Penaeus californiensis and P. stylirostris) from the 

 Gulf of California, as revealed by allozyme variation 



684-691 Gledhill, Christopher T., and Joanne Lyczkowski-Shultz 



Indices of larval king mackerel (Scomberomorus cavalla) abundance 

 in the Gulf of Mexico for use in population assessments 



692-703 Meckel, Gisela, Kim E. Murphy, and 

 Guillermo A. Compean Jimenez 



Evasive behavior of spotted and spinner dolphins (Stenella attenuata 

 and 5. longirostris) during fishing for yellowfin tuna (Thunnus 

 albacares) in the eastern Pacific Ocean 



704-710 Hernandez, Eduardo H., and Leonardo R. Castro 



Larval growth of the anchoveta Engraulis ringens during the winter 

 spawning season off central Chile 



711-722 Hoff, Gerald R. 



Biology and ecology of threaded sculpin, Gymnocanthus pistilliger, 

 In the eastern Bering Sea 



723-735 Hood, Peter B., and Andrea K. Johnson 



Age, growth, mortality, and reproduction of red porgy, Pagrus pagrus, 

 from the eastern Gulf of Mexico 



736-747 Kingsley, Michael C. S. 



Numbers and distribution of beluga whales, Delphinapterus leucas, in 

 James Bay, eastern Hudson Bay, and Ungava Bay in Canada during 

 the summer of 1993 



748-758 Kwok, Kai Yin, and l-Hsun Ni 



Age and growth of cutlassfishes, Trichiurus spp., from the 

 South China Sea 



